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IDENTITY

L'Immortel / Tartarin

Literature

Work Summary

A grouped Daudet reference linking L'Immortel with the Tartarin books. It juxtaposes Daudet's satire of literary institutions and cultural prestige with his comic adventures of the boastful provincial Tartarin.

Evidence Summary

Van Gogh contrasts the works and uses pictorial language such as colour, warmth/dryness in his evaluation.

Literary judgement is expressed partly through painterly categories.

CONTEXT

Author / Source

Alphonse Daudet

Work

L'Immortel / Tartarin

Years / Period

Sep 1888

Van Gogh Relation

Compared / Connected

EVIDENCE

Key Quotation

CONNECTIONS

Evidence Trail

Sep 1888 — Letter 673

Read / compared in painterly terms

Response: Van Gogh contrasts the works and uses pictorial language such as colour, warmth/dryness in his evaluation.

Connection: Literary judgement is expressed partly through painterly categories.

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